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JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE - BATTLE IN EGYPT #3 -- Watch & Learn

Everybody knows who they are. Don't pretend.

Does anybody think Danny Elfman wouldn’t be excited that people still care about Oingo
Boingo in 2015? And they care enough to pay homage to the band in the current
coolest anime show?

The more likely explanation here is that double checking on
rights just takes such a long time - - especially
with the Japanese way of doing business - - and the importers decided obfuscating
subtitles were just easier than clearance. Again, seriously, do any of you think
Yes and the Bangles were bothered when this show’s producers came calling?

Rubberluffy cleared up the origin of these “Zenyatta
Mondatta” names last time. I’d echo YotaruVegeta’s sentiment, though, and
wonder how avoiding trouble with Oingo Boingo is any easier than courting
trouble with the Police instead. Maybe it really is just an inside joke for the staff...

I keep harping on the names because… well… it’s impossible to ignore. Not when they
gave Oingo and Boingo their own theme song for the outro. If somehow can manage
to get past that, though, you’ll see find that this is one of the funniest episodes
in the entire series. The humor’s delightfully macabre, fitting right in with
what’d you find on the ADDAMS FAMILY, BEETLEJUICE or TREEHOUSE OF HORROR (all projects that Elfman scored,
appropriately enough). I especially loved the successive humiliations
Polnareff and Jojo #2 make the faux Jotaro endure to prove his identity - -
even when they obviously know who he really is. Araki’s consistently shown a
flair for designing schoolyard prank comeuppances for the bad guys that are oh-so
-immature, and yet oh-so-satisfying.

Getting back to the outro… I really can’t think of any show
that’s benefited from being as sharply out-of-date as this has. That sequence
and all the excerpts from the comic book are so late 80’s/early 90’s… I half-expected Fido Dido to swing on in.
Hell, it doesn’t take much imagination to picture this playing on a Liquid
Television block in between AEON FLUX bumpers.